Latest articles by Matt Mills
A timeline of Ozzy Osbourne’s greatest film, TV and videogame cameos
From screaming “boobs!” at a TV in Austin Powers to spilling orange juice during The Decline Of Western Civilization, these are the Prince Of Darkness’ greatest pop-culture moments
Bruce Dickinson and Ozzy Osbourne once planned to steal a taxi together
Watch Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson reflect on a drunken night where he ordered 50 beers then plotted grand theft auto with the Prince Of Darkness
Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth remembers legendary tour with Emperor
Cradle’s 1993 shows with Emperor have entered black metal folklore – but very few people actually showed up to see them
Ozzy Osbourne’s chaotic cameo on Late Night With Conan O’Brien is the funniest Prince Of Darkness moment nobody talks about
Over the course of a six-minute skit, Osbourne forgets the lyrics to Crazy Train, calls Barry Manilow “the antichrist” and unintentionally strangles a guy
Watch Machine Head pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne by adding War Pigs and Children Of The Grave to their setlist at the very last minute
The US groove metal veterans learned about Osbourne’s death mere minutes before taking the stage in Austria on Tuesday
Dave Mustaine wanted Megadeth to re-record songs from Metallica’s No Life ’Til Leather demo, ex-bassist David Ellefson claims
Mustaine has songwriting credits on four of the songs on Metallica’s now-legendary demo
Petition launched to rename Birmingham airport after Ozzy Osbourne
The heavy metal icon, who grew up in Birmingham, died of undisclosed causes this week at the age of 76
Watch Ghost bewitch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a performance of Lachryma
Tobias Forge’s devil church returned to late-night TV in particularly thunderous form on Wednesday
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal pioneer, has died at the age of 76
The iconic ‘Prince Of Darkness’ has passed away from undisclosed causes, his family confirm in a statement
Ghost’s Tobias Forge says Sleep Token, Måneskin and Greta Van Fleet prove rock isn’t dead
Forge takes issue with Kiss man Gene Simmons’ infamous “rock is dead” stance during a new interview
This heavy metal veteran told indie chart-toppers Snow Patrol that they’d never be successful
Paradise Lost singer Nick Holmes once told future indie sensations Snow Patrol, to their faces, that they’d never hit the big time
Who do we contact about putting this photo of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler with the Backstreet Boys up in the National Portrait Gallery?
The fact that we didn’t hear Backstreet’s Back at Back To The Beginning is a crime, really
This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect
Daron Malakian admits System Of A Down’s hiatus was “difficult”
The guitarist/vocalist reveals he struggled when the nu metal-era juggernauts went their separate ways in 2006
Endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, Mawiza have just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums
Chilean groove metallers Mawiza explore their indigenous Mapuche Nation culture on colossal debut Ül
Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week
Late-night TV will be Satanized on Wednesday, July 23
Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza is coming out in cinemas
Ozzy Osbourne’s blockbuster farewell will be turned into a concert film and hit theatre screens in 2026
Yungblud’s career-affirming cover of Black Sabbath’s Changes is now available to stream
The UK rocker stole the show with his take on Sabbath’s 1972 track at Back To The Beginning, and the performance can now be relived again and again
Masked metal enigmas President announce six-track debut EP, release new single Rage
The anonymous one-man project will give their inaugural address with King Of Terrors in September
“Hardcore innovators, soulful rockers and, frankly, the best band in the world you’re not listening to”: Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best
From scrappy debut Identity Crisis to refined latest album Horizons/East, we rank the back-catalogue of one of the most underrated bands on the planet right now
How The Summoning turned Sleep Token into metal’s most surprising breakout band
Sleep Token seemed to be too weird for mainstream success – then The Summoning turned them into overnight sensations
What is the metal song in the Stranger Things season 5 trailer? The TV show has championed another pioneering rock band
After inserting Metallica’s Master Of Puppets into season four, Stranger Things has used another hard rock classic to soundtrack the announcement of season five
This is what it’s like to be jailed by a repressive regime for playing in a metal band
Confess frontman Nikan Khosravi was imprisoned by the Iranian authorities for being a metal fan
